Factors That Affect Learning

I’ve been working on a new section of the Learning Science Guidebook today, building on the work Sae and Geoff have done over the last couple of weeks whilst i’ve been travelling. This particular section explores factors that affect learning – so it’s looking outside the learning assets or structure itself, and into the human, social and environmental aspects. The things that are within or surround the learner! Today i’m sharing the illustration idea for the section, as well as a couple of paragraphs of the text. I hope to share the full section end of this week or early next.

An extract here:

“No matter how well a learning experience is crafted and delivered, there are many external factors that affect whether it works for those learners, at that particular moment in time, and whether the experience will deliver its intended value.”

“One way to picture the range of factors that influence the learning process is to start with the individual: Consider all of the individual differences that might moderate whether and how someone learns, and then gradually open that lens wider to consider the learning context, the people and things around us that impact learning. And then wider still: the broader factors that influence our context, including the social environment, organisational dynamics, and even global conditions.”